N-Ewes from Hopeful Shetlands

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

New Product to Knit

I belong to the Oxford Knitter's Guild and knit with some very talented people once a month. One of these women is Sherrie Thompson, who kindly writes patterns for use with my shetland and shetland cross wool. Sherrie was the knitter of the shetland socks featured in Spin-Off magazine advertising NASSA and she also wrote patterns for the cat's paw shawl and a felted clutch. Her latest pattern is for some warm woollen socks. I will be selling the kits online, if you wish to e-mail me. but they also will be available as kits at Knitter's Frolic, this April 28th, in Toronto. Pictured below is the pattern done in natural coloured wool, but colours will also be available. Happy Knitting!

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About Me

From my interests in fibre, I have met many other shepherds and all of our goals are to raise happy healthy animals that give us lovely fibre to spin. I have been working over the past few years to increase the softness and fineness of my shetland sheep while maintaining the breed standard of a well built hardy self sufficient animal that grows well and has few problems at lambing time. I am starting to see the fruits of my labour pay off this year and have been able to launch a line of shetland wool products called HOPEFUL SHETLAND, all from my own animals.